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executive

a. the branch of government responsible for carrying out laws, decrees, etc.; administration
b. any administration
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executive

(operating system)
The command interpreter or shell for an operating system. The term is used especially around mainframes and probably derived from UNIVAC's archaic EXEC 2 and current (in 2000) EXEC 8 operating systems.
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